Ms. Katie Peterson is the Communication Manager for Catholics Come Home, a national Catholic evangelism apostolate working to invite fallen-away Catholics and non-Catholics home to the Catholic Church and Virtue Media, a national pro-life apostolate that has helped save thousands of babies and mothers from abortion in the past decade, through compassionate and educational sanctity of life television commercials.
She is a Contributing Writer for the "Today's Catholics - Young Adults" section for The Integrated Catholic Life.
Sometimes I talk entirely too much. And don’t you judge me. So do you. The other day I went to the adoration chapel. I opened the chapel door, entered the quiet sanctuary of God’s presence, and knelt before Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, allowing His peace and love to fill and quiet my busy [...]
It’s Sunday and you’re standing in the pew at Mass making the sign of the cross to signify the celebration has almost concluded. As Father descends down the marble steps of the altar, the recessional hymn begins. There’s your cue! You grab your coat and slip your left arm through as your right hand holds [...]
It’s the New Year! And you know what that means…Top 10 lists. So, while Hollywood and the network news stations are publishing and broadcasting Top 10 lists about everything from commercials to celebrity meltdowns, political gaffes to consumer purchases, I thought I would do something a little different—okay, way different: my Top 10 excerpts from [...]
“The tempter is not so crude as to suggest to us directly that we should worship the devil. He merely suggests that we opt for the reasonable decision, that we choose to give priority to a planned and thoroughly organized world, where God may have his place as a private concern but must not interfere [...]
It’s that time again. The Christmas lights and decorations are adorning the grocery stores and coffee shops, and the radio stations are playing holiday music round-the-clock. The frenzied shopping kicked off early this year—beginning even before the dreaded Black Friday, with some stores creeping into family time on Thanksgiving in order to seize the avid [...]
He sold everything he owned and he went into the desert to fight demons. He burned with a desire for God, and “the devil, an enemy of the word Christian, could not bear to see such outstanding virtues in a young man and so he attacked him” (from Early Christian Lives, the “Life of Antony [...]
If someone approached you unexpectedly and asked you to tell them the story of salvation history—the story of God’s interaction with His people and His covenant promises to them begun in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New—would you be able to recite the story to the questioning individual without hesitation? Or would you [...]
I have been remiss in undertaking the glorious endeavor of writing in the past few weeks…well, maybe months. When I sat down at my computer the other day, fingers ready to fly around the keys, a bowl of freshly popped popcorn at my side, piano music playing in the background, motivation was at an all-time [...]
Most of us are doing a severe disservice to the faith. We’re keeping it locked up—enclosed within the walls of our personal lives, our homes, our church, basically everywhere it fails to be a “burden” on others, an embarrassment to ourselves, a big, fat, glaring “elephant in the room.” Of course, many of you may [...]
A common theme that has weaved itself through my entire life, but especially in the past three years, has been that of waiting. The other night on the phone, my friend observed that “much of life is waiting”—and it is. I’m sure most of you are in some sort of waiting stage right now, whether [...]
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St. Benedict for Beginners – The Third Step to Humility
This is the ninth in a series on St. Benedict for Beginners. – The Editors The Third Step to Humility ‘The third step of humility is that for the love of God a man should be obedient to his superior in all things.’ Obedience? What a sign of scandal in an individualistic age! The whole [...]
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